Thursday, October 8, 2009

Nagios replaced with Groundworks

After several years of using Nagios with its old interface, I realized that there should be something out there that it can simplify the configuration. Moreover, I tested a lot of configurations tools for Nagios but none was quite as good as I expected. Finally, I decided to test other monitor tools like Zenoss, Zabbix, Hyperic, Opsview, and Groundworks.

All are wonderful tools, easy to install, and provide the service that you need. However, Nagios has been around for the longest time and people is very familiar with it , so I decided to be focused on Opsview and Groundworks. Well ...as always , you must be covered by some kind of support ...so I suggest you to go Groundworks......

It is very easy to install ....

First , get a clean installation of linux ....I recommend Centos...(This is another discussion)